For Gary Dorr and his son Cody, fall is for shooting and game birds. But Gary is also teaching Cody the skills of the bowhunter.

It’s fall and the birds are in the air. But for Cody Dorr, even though he’d been on bird hunts before, this will be the first season he’ll shoot.

He’ll start with a simple gun. But one day, not too many seasons into the future, he’ll be handed a very special shotgun.

Hunting game birds is a popular seasonal sport all over the country, and in Oklahoma and it’s neighboring states at this time of year you can find owner-operator Gary Dorr out looking for dove, quail and pheasant.

“I’ve been hunting birds since I was knee-high to a grasshopper,” says Dorr, 48. “We used to have a lot of open pasture, and Dad and a few of his friends would get together at our place and just go dove hunting. Some of them would have dogs, some wouldn’t. They had all different kinds of guns. I’d just go along with them.

“Now I’ve got a 10-year-old fixing to have his first season this year. He’s got his first pellet gun, and he’s been practicing with it.”